Bioinspired Photonic Pigments from Colloidal Self-Assembly

Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers

(2018) Dakota E. McCoy et al.   Nature Communications

Structural Color Tuning: Mixing Melanin-Like Particles with Different Diameters to Create Neutral Colors

(2017) Ayaka Kawamura et al.   LANGMUIR

Periodic assembly of nanoparticle arrays in disclinations of cholesteric liquid crystals

(2017) Yunfeng Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Free-Standing Photonic Crystal Films with Gradient Structural Colors

(2016) Haibo Ding et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Production of Structural Colors with High Contrast and Wide Viewing Angles from Assemblies of Polypyrrole Black Coated Polystyrene Nanoparticles

(2016) Xiaoming Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals in a Confined Geometry

(2016) Richard M. Parker et al.   ACS Nano

Flexible Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films

(2016) Giulia Guidetti et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recent advances in the biomimicry of structural colours

(2016) Ahu Gümrah Dumanli et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

A colloidoscope of colloid-based porous materials and their uses

(2016) Katherine R. Phillips et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Structural colour from helicoidal cell-wall architecture in fruits ofMargaritaria nobilis

(2016) Silvia Vignolini et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Synthesis of highly uniform Cu2O spheres by a two-step approach and their assembly to form photonic crystals with a brilliant color

(2016) Xin Su et al.   Nanoscale

Colloidal cholesteric liquid crystal in spherical confinement

(2016) Yunfeng Li et al.   Nature Communications

Tailoring re-entrant geometry in inverse colloidal monolayers to control surface wettability

(2016) Stefanie Utech et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Full-Color Biomimetic Photonic Materials with Iridescent and Non-Iridescent Structural Colors

(2016) Ayaka Kawamura et al.   Scientific Reports

Bio-Inspired Structural Colors Produced via Self-Assembly of Synthetic Melanin Nanoparticles

(2015) Ming Xiao et al.   ACS Nano

Time-Controlled Colloidal Superstructures: Long-Range Plasmon Resonance Coupling in Particle Monolayers

(2015) Kirsten Volk et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Art on the Nanoscale and Beyond

(2015) Ali K. Yetisen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Coassembly of Nanorods and Nanospheres in Suspensions and in Stratified Films

(2015) Héloïse Thérien-Aubin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dopamine-Melanin Nanofilms for Biomimetic Structural Coloration

(2015) Tong-Fei Wu et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Advances in Colloidal Assembly: The Design of Structure and Hierarchy in Two and Three Dimensions

(2015) Nicolas Vogel et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Block copolymer self-assembly for nanophotonics

(2015) Morgan Stefik et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Multifunctional inverse opal particles for drug delivery and monitoring

(2015) Bin Zhang et al.   Nanoscale

Coexistence of both gyroid chiralities in individual butterfly wing scales ofCallophrys rubi

(2015) Benjamin Winter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Color from hierarchy: Diverse optical properties of micron-sized spherical colloidal assemblies

(2015) Nicolas Vogel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Colloidal matter: Packing, geometry, and entropy

(2015) V. N. Manoharan   SCIENCE

Combining Bottom-Up Self-Assembly with Top-Down Microfabrication to Create Hierarchical Inverse Opals with High Structural Order

(2015) Manuel Schaffner et al.   Small

Catechol-based layer-by-layer assembly of composite coatings: a versatile platform to hierarchical nano-materials

(2015) C. X. Wang et al.   Soft Matter

Angle- and strain-independent coloured free-standing films incorporating non-spherical colloidal photonic crystals

(2015) Seon Ju Yeo et al.   Soft Matter

Photonic crystals cause active colour change in chameleons

(2015) Jérémie Teyssier et al.   Nature Communications

A chameleon-inspired stretchable electronic skin with interactive colour changing controlled by tactile sensing

(2015) Ho-Hsiu Chou et al.   Nature Communications

Anisotropic Light Transport in White Beetle Scales

(2015) Lorenzo Cortese et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Biomimetic non-iridescent structural color materials from polydopamine black particles that mimic melanin granules

(2015) Michinari Kohri et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Preparation of structurally colored, monodisperse spherical assemblies composed of black and white colloidal particles using a micro-flow-focusing device

(2015) Midori Teshima et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Spherical Colloidal Photonic Crystals

(2014) Yuanjin Zhao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Magnetoresponsive Discoidal Photonic Crystals Toward Active Color Pigments

(2014) Hye Soo Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Facile Synthesis of Dynamic, Shape-Changing Polymer Particles

(2014) Daniel Klinger et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Full-Spectrum Photonic Pigments with Non-iridescent Structural Colors through Colloidal Assembly

(2014) Jin-Gyu Park et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Spray coating of superhydrophobic and angle-independent coloured films

(2014) Dengteng Ge et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Tunable Anisotropy in Inverse Opals and Emerging Optical Properties

(2014) Katherine R. Phillips et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Production of Colourful Pigments Consisting of Amorphous Arrays of Silica Particles

(2014) Shinya Yoshioka et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Directional Wetting in Anisotropic Inverse Opals

(2014) Katherine R. Phillips et al.   LANGMUIR

Colloidal Assembly in Leidenfrost Drops for Noniridescent Structural Color Pigments

(2014) Che Ho Lim et al.   LANGMUIR

Hierarchical structural control of visual properties in self-assembled photonic-plasmonic pigments

(2014) Natalie Koay et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Absence of red structural color in photonic glasses, bird feathers, and certain beetles

(2014) Sofia Magkiriadou et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Bioinspired micrograting arrays mimicking the reverse color diffraction elements evolved by the butterfly Pierella luna

(2014) G. England et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inverse Opal SiO2Photonic Crystals as Structurally-Colored Pigments with Additive Primary Colors

(2014) David P. Josephson et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANORGANISCHE UND ALLGEMEINE CHEMIE

Bright-White Beetle Scales Optimise Multiple Scattering of Light

(2014) Matteo Burresi et al.   Scientific Reports

Controlled, Bio-inspired Self-Assembly of Cellulose-Based Chiral Reflectors

(2014) Ahu Gumrah Dumanli et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Optical Properties of Gyroid Structured Materials: From Photonic Crystals to Metamaterials

(2014) James A. Dolan et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Angle-independent colours from spray coated quasi-amorphous arrays of nanoparticles: combination of constructive interference and Rayleigh scattering

(2014) Dengteng Ge et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Redox- and mechano-chromic response of metallopolymer-based elastomeric colloidal crystal films

(2014) D. Scheid et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

25th Anniversary Article: Ordered Polymer Structures for the Engineering of Photons and Phonons

(2013) Jae-Hwang Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Production of Colored Pigments with Amorphous Arrays of Black and White Colloidal Particles

(2013) Yukikazu Takeoka et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reversible Light-, Thermo-, and Mechano-Responsive Elastomeric Polymer Opal Films

(2013) Christian G. Schäfer et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

In Situ “Doping” Inverse Silica Opals with Size-Controllable Gold Nanoparticles for Refractive Index Sensing

(2013) Zhongyu Cai et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Analysing photonic structures in plants

(2013) S. Vignolini et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Fully Reversible Shape Transition of Soft Spheres in Elastomeric Polymer Opal Films

(2013) Christian G. Schäfer et al.   LANGMUIR

Disordered photonics

(2013) Diederik S. Wiersma   Nature Photonics

Preparation of iridescent colloidal crystal coatings with variable structural colors

(2013) Hailin Cong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Directed assembly of particles using microfluidic droplets and bubbles

(2013) Teresa Brugarolas et al.   Soft Matter

Structural coloration in nature

(2013) Jiyu Sun et al.   RSC Advances

Structurally Coloured Secondary Particles Composed of Black and White Colloidal Particles

(2013) Yukikazu Takeoka et al.   Scientific Reports

Three-Phase Co-assembly: In Situ Incorporation of Nanoparticles into Tunable, Highly Ordered, Porous Silica Films

(2013) Yolanda Vasquez et al.   ACS Photonics

Anisotropic Resonant Scattering from Polymer Photonic Crystals

(2012) Andrew I. Haines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Flexible, Angle-Independent, Structural Color Reflectors Inspired by Morpho Butterfly Wings

(2012) Kyungjae Chung et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Triphase Microfluidic-Directed Self-Assembly: Anisotropic Colloidal Photonic Crystal Supraparticles and Multicolor Patterns Made Easy

(2012) Ziyi Yu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Functional Block Copolymers: Nanostructured Materials with Emerging Applications

(2012) Felix H. Schacher et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bio-inspired variable structural color materials

(2012) Yuanjin Zhao et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Design and functionality of colloidal-crystal-templated materials—chemical applications of inverse opals

(2012) Andreas Stein et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Bottom-up assembly of photonic crystals

(2012) Georg von Freymann et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Integrating Plasmonic Nanoparticles with TiO2 Photonic Crystal for Enhancement of Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalysis

(2012) Ying Lu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Iridescence: a functional perspective

(2012) S. M Doucet et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Structure and optical function of amorphous photonic nanostructures from avian feather barbs: a comparative small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) analysis of 230 bird species

(2012) V. Saranathan et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Ordered Arrays of Gold Nanostructures from Interfacially Assembled Au@PNIPAM Hybrid Nanoparticles

(2012) Nicolas Vogel et al.   LANGMUIR

Probing guided modes in a monolayer colloidal crystal on a flat metal film

(2012) Sergei G. Romanov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit

(2012) S. Vignolini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wetting in Color: Colorimetric Differentiation of Organic Liquids with High Selectivity

(2011) Ian B. Burgess et al.   ACS Nano

In-Flight Inkjet Self-Assembly of Spherical Nanoparticle Aggregates

(2011) Enrico Sowade et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Ordered Binary Colloidal Monolayers with Adjustable Stoichiometries

(2011) Nicolas Vogel et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Painting by Numbers: Nanoparticle-Based Colorants in the Post-Empirical Age

(2011) Robin Klupp Taylor et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hierarchical assembly of micro-/nano-building blocks: bio-inspired rigid structural functional materials

(2011) Hong-Bin Yao et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Encoding Complex Wettability Patterns in Chemically Functionalized 3D Photonic Crystals

(2011) Ian B. Burgess et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Convenient Method to Produce Close- and Non-close-Packed Monolayers using Direct Assembly at the Air-Water Interface and Subsequent Plasma-Induced Size Reduction

(2011) Nicolas Vogel et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Bio-inspired design of multiscale structures for function integration

(2011) Kesong Liu et al.   Nano Today

Stable structural color patterns displayed on transparent insect wings

(2011) E. Shevtsova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tunable structural color in organisms and photonic materials for design of bioinspired materials

(2011) Hiroshi Fudouzi   SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS

Real-Time Optofluidic Synthesis of Magnetochromatic Microspheres for Reversible Structural Color Patterning

(2011) Junhoi Kim et al.   Small

From soft to hard: the generation of functional and complex colloidal monolayers for nanolithography

(2011) Nicolas Vogel et al.   Soft Matter

The Red and the Black

(2010) John D. Simon et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Colloidal Photonic Crystal Pigments with Low Angle Dependence

(2010) Carlos I. Aguirre et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Particle Lithography from Colloidal Self-Assembly at Liquid−Liquid Interfaces

(2010) Lucio Isa et al.   ACS Nano

Tunable Colors in Opals and Inverse Opal Photonic Crystals

(2010) Carlos I. Aguirre et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Self-Assembled Photonic Structures

(2010) Juan F. Galisteo-López et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biomimetic Isotropic Nanostructures for Structural Coloration

(2010) Jason D. Forster et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

How Noniridescent Colors Are Generated by Quasi-ordered Structures of Bird Feathers

(2010) Heeso Noh et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Colloidal Assembly: The Road from Particles to Colloidal Molecules and Crystals

(2010) Fan Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Art as an Avenue to Science Literacy: Teaching Nanotechnology through Stained Glass

(2010) Kimberly A. Duncan et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Mechanism of variable structural colour in the neon tetra: quantitative evaluation of the Venetian blind model

(2010) S. Yoshioka et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio blumei butterfly

(2010) Mathias Kolle et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Structural coloration and photonic pseudogap in natural random close-packing photonic structures

(2010) B. Q. Dong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Assembly of large-area, highly ordered, crack-free inverse opal films

(2010) B. Hatton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stacking the Nanochemistry Deck: Structural and Compositional Diversity in One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

(2009) Leonardo D. Bonifacio et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The Synthesis and Assembly of Polymeric Microparticles Using Microfluidics

(2009) Dhananjay Dendukuri et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photonic Glasses: A Step Beyond White Paint

(2009) Pedro David García et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Wetting Characteristics of Insect Wing Surfaces

(2009) Doyoung Byun et al.   Journal of Bionic Engineering

Color from colorless nanomaterials: Bragg reflectors made of nanoparticles

(2009) Daniel P. Puzzo et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Fabrication of Large-Area, Transferable Colloidal Monolayers Utilizing Self-Assembly at the Air/Water Interface

(2009) Markus Retsch et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Ultra-Fast Fabrication of Colloidal Photonic Crystals by Spray Coating

(2009) Liying Cui et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Natural photonics for industrial inspiration

(2009) A. R Parker   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Scale coloration change following water absorption in the beetleHoplia coerulea(Coleoptera)

(2009) Marie Rassart et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Designer disordered materials with large, complete photonic band gaps

(2009) M. Florescu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synthesis of Light-Diffracting Assemblies from Microspheres and Nanoparticles in Droplets on a Superhydrophobic Surface

(2008) Vinayak Rastogi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Patterned Colloidal Photonic Domes and Balls Derived from Viscous Photocurable Suspensions

(2008) Shin-Hyun Kim et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Structural and optical characterization of 3D binary colloidal crystal and inverse opal films prepared by direct co-deposition

(2008) Jianjun Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Gold bugs and beyond: a review of iridescence and structural colour mechanisms in beetles (Coleoptera)

(2008) A. E Seago et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Physics of structural colors

(2008) S Kinoshita et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS